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Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

38 p.

Description

This oral history involves an interview with 4 of the key personnel involved in the founding and product development at Weitek. They describe their motivations for forming the company, their business model and financing, and their early product development successes. Key challenges included being an early fabless semiconductor company before the foundry business was fully established. They also discuss the various reasons why Weitek was not successful over the long term.